Scary Stuff

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2006)

I thought this film was excellent but it also scared me.
What if this kind of thing became reality? The way the world and technology is progressing I feel that this kind of thing could soon become a reality.
The thought that the rich and famous could take out "insurance policies" in the form of clones of themselves to use in the future if their own organs need replacing or they need skin-grafts or bone marrow, etc is very, very frightening to me.
It is yet just another example of how man feels that he can play God. It's so very, very wrong. I thought long and hard about the moral implications of all of this but it did say in the film that the clones didn't have any souls and when they expired they just died with no chance of the glorious resurrection.
I hope that this kind of stuff never becomes possible, our Lord God would, I expect, be absolutely furious and sickened if this type of thing became a reality. Perhaps this type of "progress" would be enough for God to call time on the mankind and the whole Earth and trigger Armageddon.
All in all though, I know at the moment that this is still only fiction. For the time being at least.
That said, I really did enjoy the film and thought the action scenes and chases were all excellent.
I would recommend this film to anyone but for all the religious out there amongst you it certainly does provide food for thought.
The only criticism I have is that the film is somewhat over-long with a run time of just over 2 hours. As a rule I generally become rather irritable after 100 minutes but this film merited the wait to see the conclusion.